Indiana Jones Vocabulary

Making this happen will involve taking risks, particularly a willingness to change our attitudes and actions. 1919 The Year That Changed America

I told him about my trips, my adventures around the island at night. Root Magic

He’d taken a picture of an ancient redwood tree standing solemnly against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. Shooting Kabul

Tiwanaku has been excavated for a century, and the more archaeologists delve into it the less there seems to be. 1491

What can archaeology tell us about the other great population movement in recent African prehistory—the Bantu expansion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

She understood now that her mom wasn’t only securing artifacts for the museum, but also trying to secure their future. Aru Shah and the End of Time

In the month and a half since the racial equality discussion in Socio Evo, Jared’s been on a crusade to prove things in America are equal. Dear Martin

For some reason, we were satisfied this would keep any immediate danger at bay. Never Let Me Go

The video recording announces, “The rover Resilience brought home many important discoveries that have moved our understanding of Mars forward, but the planet still holds many mysteries yet to be solved.” A Rover's Story

Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. Cosmos

Dad perched his fedora back on his head. October Sky

Othello, he remembered, was like the hero of Three Weeks in a Helicopter—a black man. Brave New World

Some claimed to have seen with their own eyes this most powerful and beautiful of cats in the jungles of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom

While sitting in on other professors’ lectures, Oppenheimer was known to squirm impatiently. Bomb

As he had expected, Bigwig jumped at the idea of a raid to free the hutch rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel

It was an illuminating insight: a scientist could understand the present and the future by examining the “battered relics” of the past. The Gene

He would buy a stick of incense and place it in the little temple to the Earth God. The Good Earth

In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore’s body and the table on which he had rested. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

As for the wealthy, their tombs were underground mansions crammed with gold and treasure. The Golden Goblet

The old man cracked his whip, the horses strained—and the coach rolled up out of the bog. The Whipping Boy